Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Why TPM Initiatives Sometimes Fail

The news is always positive. Lean manufacturing techniques will improve your business. Use Kaizen, Kanban and 5S and your profits will soar anf customers will beat a path to your door. But, it doesn't always work out that way. Sometimes you can spent a lot of money on implementing lean manufacturing and get little or no benefot.

Ans article from the January issue of Reliable Plant Magazine discusses why Total Productive Maintenance sometimes fails.

1 Comments:

At 4:50 AM, May 25, 2007, Blogger Unknown said...

Well, kaizen, kanban or whatever is just philosophy or methods. All is back to human who implementing it. Kaizen is simple philosophy and no significant cost required.

 

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